WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. — Former Arkansas Governor and staunch Republican Mike Huckabee called out President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama for their parenting choices.
He says it’s a mistake to let their daughters listen to Beyonce’s music, calling it “toxic” and “poisonous.”
She’s known to the world as Queen B, and is a superstar with a massive fan base, including the Obama family. But not so much Mike Huckabee.
The former Republican Governor of Arkansas called her music, “obnoxious and toxic mental poison in the form of song lyrics,” in his new book.
Now the man considering running for his job is calling out the president for letting his daughters listen to Beyonce’s music.
“Beyonce! She is a role model for teenage girls,” Robin Walker said.
Walker is a mother who also lets her kids listen to Beyonce. She’s a fan herself, but agrees some of the lyrics to her songs and suggestive performances are a bit over the top. Or, as Huckabee put it, “best left for the privacy of her bedroom.”
“It is bad for little girls to be listening to things like that, but by him being the President, they are just targeting him,” she said.
Chauncey Church says Huckabee is reading too far into it.
“Music is just entertainment; it shouldn’t be taken to heart,” he said.
Church says it’s not about what the lyrics say, it’s about how the music makes you feel. He says today’s music has a lot of sexual undertones, but it doesn’t mean kids, including Sasha and Malia Obama, can’t enjoy it.
“Not just R&B like Beyonce, but with pop and country. They are all explicit,” he pointed out.
Whether you consider these statements as political posturing or parenting advice, the accusations are getting Huckabee’s book a lot of attention, as well as his possible presidential campaign.
This isn’t the first-time people in Washington have gone after the Obama girls. In November, one of Tennessee congressman Stephen Fincher’s staffers ridiculed them for their clothing choices. She resigned days later.